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I'm in a spot of bother.
I have a Sony Vaio PCG-Z600RE(/K) and I can't for the life of me get Wary 5.5 to even boot past the boot: prompt from the PCMCIA CD drive.

I've tried the old ide1=0x180 trick, didn't work.
I've burnt numerous disks from different places (most up-to-date Puppy, DSL etc.) at different speeds and it just refuses to boot.

It was not burnt on the drive it is reading from, since the external drive cannot burn disks. However, I have burnt from the same drive I have burned the Linux disks and it's read them with no problem. For instance, my Win2K disk.

I get an error about a .sfs file not found. It then kicks me into a prompt that's about as useful as MS-DOS (in today's standard).

The specs follow:
Intel Pentium 3 ~500MHz
128MB RAM
16x PCMCIA disk drive
1024x768 12" screen
No battery, since the old one is toast and to get new ones they cost 4x more than I paid for the laptop
Windows 2000 Professional SP4 (what it was designed for)

Any help is appreciated.

Thanks a ton,
ihaterain5620

Oh, and um, apologies if this kind of thread has been done to death, but I never seem to get a good answer from the older threads.

OK, after some faffing around and finding out a cheat code for DSL, I managed to get that going and installed (didn't see that there was a space between 0x180, 0x386).

Although, it's not that great, I can't get my head around it.

Wary, using the code mentioned before, springs up some red and purple text, mentions a SCSI disk (?!) and waits for 60 seconds. It then loads drivers, and stops at the same error. "Puppy_Wary_5.5.sfs not found". I have tried this disk on a standard desktop, and it booted first time.

What do I do now? Oh, and I have no bootable floppy disk drives, just a USB one.